TEXAS CENTER
Overview
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Bio-Sketches of Texas Center Personnel and some Associates
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Major Strengths Of The Texas Center
The major strengths of the Center in accomplishing its primary productivity/quality improvement and employee’s quality of work life enhancement missions are: the multi-disciplinary nature, involving both technological and socio-psychological expertise, increases the success of any organizational improvement or plant startup; the ability to implement productivity and organizational work design and redesign efforts; the ability to gather and manage professionals from many different disciplines, allowing it to successfully complete any size project; the fact that the Texas Center is neither pro nor con labor or management, union or non-union; the correspondence with over 500 worldwide productivity organizations and its membership in the United States Productivity Network, permitting a continuous flow of information from and to the Texas Center; and, finally, its diverse group of expert associates from many different fields of study and locals.
The multidisciplinary nature of the Center is achieved by forming project teams of research associates, thirty-one (31) from Texas Tech University, twenty-two (22) affiliated research associates located throughout the United States and in other countries at other universities, and nine (9) industrial affiliates located in North and South America. These disciplines are from management, computer science, CAD/CAM, information systems, factory-of-the-future, computer architecture, public administration, accounting, organizational design, industrial engineering, psychology, operations management, economics, architecture, organizational behavior and psychology, medicine, marketing, industrial relations, and law. The Texas Center's expertise rests in both technical and managerial work improvement and innovation. Our associates are from various locales in the continental United States and beyond. |